Carnegie Hall announces its 2013-14 season

David Lang will be Carnegie Hall's composer-in-residence for the 2013-14 seasonPeter Serling

Carnegie Hall’s 2013-14 season supplies traditionalists with the culture of Vienna and finds a worthy figure for its Debs Composer Chair in Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang.

The season includes a three-week long festival “Vienna: City Of Dreams,” which features concert performances of Berg’s “Wozzeck” and Strauss’ “Salome” with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera. More traditional programs offer symphonies and chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Schubert and Haydn. As part of the festival’s contemporary offerings, electronic musician Fennesz presents “Mahler Remixed” with visuals by digital abstract artist Lillevan.

It’s a strong season for opera lovers. A Benjamin Britten centenary celebration centers on a concert performance of “Peter Grimes” with the St. Louis Symphony and Chorus, conductor David Robertson, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey and soprano Susanna Phillips. The “War Requiem” with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and chamber works are also on the schedule. Ian Bostridge and Iestyn Davies appear as soloists for the five Canticles.

David Lang’s residency includes a six-concert Zankel Hall series focused on musical storytelling. Composers and performers include Arvo Pärt, Julia Wolfe, Harry Partch, Alarm Will Sound, Signal and Newband. Lang and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble will host a workshop for young composers and performers.

The season opens October 2 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading the Philadelphia Orchestra with soloists Esperanza Spalding and Joshua Bell.

In other highlights, Osmo Vänskä leads the Minnesota Orchestra in the first complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies in the hall’s history. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his Carnegie Hall recital debut. Valery Gergiev leads the Mariinsky Orchestra in three concerts of Russian masterworks.

James Levine is slated to lead the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in concerts featuring Joyce DiDonato singing Rossini and Mozart and Peter Mattei performing Mahler. Jeremy Denk appears with the San Francisco Orchestra and music director Michael Tilson Thomas.

An evening of song celebrates mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne’s 80th birthday. Anne-Sophie Mutter premieres works by Penderecki and Previn. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax perform music by Brahms and new pieces inspired by his work.

The fourth and final Spring for Music festival showcases the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.